The Westminster, Plot 1 at Cairns Homes’ Marina Quays is the largest and best-positioned home on the entire development at Newark-on-Trent. If you’ve had Marina Quays on your radar for a while but never quite got round to booking a viewing, this riverside property is the one worth moving on now rather than later.
What makes it the one to see first
At 4,136 sq ft, with five double bedrooms, four bathrooms, a study, an extensive kitchen dining lounge, a large library and a separate lounge/drawing room, The Westminster is comfortably the largest home Cairns Homes has built at Marina Quays. It’s also the only corner plot on the site, which means views over both the marina and the River Trent rather than a single aspect. Plus, there’s a stunning terrace and a garden generous enough for the spectacular outdoor kitchen, a hot tub and a fire pit with surround seating.
None of that comes at the price per square foot you might expect. At £1,500,000, that’s more space, and a better position, for a lower price per square foot than any of the other homes still available at Marina Quays. Buyers comparing homes purely on value are getting more house for their money.
The specification, if you’re weighing it up
Beyond the size and the position, The Westminster is built to a specification that holds up under close inspection. The exterior combines wood lap cladding with Monocouche render, bespoke aluminium windows, and aluminium sliding doors fitted with internal blinds, all under a slate roof topped with solar panels that generate some of the home’s own energy. A large balcony runs off the master bedroom and the first-floor landing, overlooking landscaped and well-lit gardens below.
The study is a generous 14 feet square, and the lounge is just over 17 by 14 feet. The largest of the five bedrooms stretches close to 19 feet in length. Underfloor Gas central heating runs through the ground floor and bathrooms, and there are Italian radiators upstairs. The whole ground floor is fully tiled. It’s the kind of detail that’s easy to skim past on a spec sheet and much harder to ignore once you’re standing in the rooms themselves.
The setting, in case you haven’t seen it yet
Marina Quays sits behind electronic entrance gates on a quiet, non-tidal stretch of the River Trent, and it’s just a short walk from Newark-on-Trent town centre. Many of the homes here come with their own mooring, with routes out toward Nottingham, Lincoln and York on the doorstep. It’s the kind of setting that’s hard to describe fully in a listing and much easier to understand standing on the terrace, during a private viewing.
Built by Cairns Homes
The Westminster is built by Cairns Homes, an independent developer based in Loughborough with more than 30 years in the business. Rather than repeating the same house type across a site, Cairns designs each development individually, with Marina Quays sitting alongside current projects in Radcliffe-on-Trent and Sheffield. That approach shows up in the small details as much as the big ones, and The Westminster, as the largest and most individually positioned home at Marina Quays, is as good an example of it as anything currently on the market.
Why the timing matters
New-build developments don’t sell in a neat, predictable order. Sometimes the smaller homes go first, sometimes the larger ones do, and once a plot is gone, it’s gone.
For buyers who’ve been waiting for the right moment, or the right home, to make a move, this is that moment. Waiting rarely improves the odds when it comes to the last of something this specific.
Viewings are by appointment only. Call Caroline Taylor at Cairns Homes on 07919 532000 or email info@cairnshomes.co.uk to book yours.
